Toronto KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group

[ADRM]

From Jon Cummings, on IG:

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...that answers what they're going to do with those corner bits where the cladding meets from a few pages back.

 

[AHK]

March 10 - King Toronto cladding and glazing update. Progress has been continuing along the south wall of the building over the last week (March 3 - 7), however there appear to have been at least a couple of minor hiccups. The cladding section sides have a tongue and groove type structure, so the edges of one section are mated with those of the its neigbours. The first photo below shows one section end on. There have been instances where the process of inserting edge of a section being installed into that of its already installed neighbour has resulted in them getting stuck together, with the new section no being able to fully drop down into place, with an amount of time and effort required to separate the units. Hopefully the process will proceed more smoothly as the contractor gains more experience, and in particular as the work proceeds to the smaller cladding sections to be used for the residential floors.

Cladding section edge tongue and groove profile

Tower crane positioning cladding section for installation

South section status as of March 4

March 6 - a number of sections installed over the past three days

March 7 - - new sections can now be seen from the Herman Miller building parking lot.

 

[bro-arch]

Does anyone know if they did any kind of view analysis. Looking at how the windows are, it feels like everyone is just looking into their neighbours living rooms / bedrooms

 

[nightstreak]

Does anyone know if they did any kind of view analysis. Looking at how the windows are, it feels like everyone is just looking into their neighbours living rooms / bedrooms

You can see in these photos from @AHK

The window positions alternate between window in a corner to wall in the corner. Where it’s a wall in the corner, it’s a new unit and at most, the neighbour can look at the window further up ahead but not through the window into the unit.

 

[bro-arch]

@nightstreak I'm not sure if thats true. Drawing a simple diagram of whoever has the full corner window, they have views into the windows on both sides of them with the other windows positioned further back, mind you someone has to be standing right in the tip. My guess is that full corner is the living, so it doesnt really matter if you're looking into your own bedroom to the larger window, but the small window is someone else's unit, and if thats me, my blinds are drawn all the time. Doesn't really matter to me in the end, as I didnt buy here. just an observation.

 

[neuhaus]

Commercial levels are on the first four floors. Having the windows face each other on these floors are not a concern as they are commercial spaces (and don’t need privacy) and in most cases the commercial unit spans a large swath of floor area so those windows that look on to each other are most likely belong to the same commercial unit.
As for the residential levels, the windows that face straight into another unit are vision glass block to provide some privacy while still allow light. The courtyard units are in a more unique situation where they all face each other in all directions in a narrow canyon-like space, so there is a given that those units will have much less privacy and daylight.

 

[AHK]

A cladding section installation photo shoot. The section had previously been staged outside face up on the floor inside of where it was to be installed. The photos show the activities from the tower crane pick-up hook coming down, picking up the section rotating it to its proper orientation, and installation into place.

A couple of final photos:

 

[RyanD]

Last night